I agree with Jed McKenna (author of "Spiritual Enlightenment: It's the Damnedest Thing") who says if you're being spiritual and practicing spirituality to feel good always...then you are a bliss junkie. You're nothing but an addict! He considers that morally GROSS. I honestly get and LOVE that he blew that lie open.
If you find that you can't TRULY enjoy happy times---you kinda feel it, but not like you imagined---and that you can't really feel PRESENT at things like getting married or having a child (it wasn't as powerful as you were told), that's because you RESIST and suffocate those feelings like sadness, anger, lust, etc.
You can't close off one spectrum without closing off the other.
Worried you might cry for three straight days if you let it all in? Worried you can't get off anti-depressants or you'll start throwing plates?
Well, cry for three days. Throw some fucking plates.
The type of people that can say that to you are the ones you need to seek out now. Stop going to spiritual satsangs and Unity Church and joining groups that give you fluffy bullshit advice like, "Always feel love and be positive..." They are merely uncomfortable with your REALNESS, your humanness. They haven't gone there yet. You're too true. You're scaring them with your courage.
If anyone has read about awakening/enlightenment and wonders why they haven't "gotten it" yet, it's for this reason: You gotta walk through a river of shit---willingly----and then you get the "reward." I put "reward" in quotes, because let me tell you right now: It is NOT eternal bliss. It is NOT.
Are you sure you want that? You may want to stay asleep. You may actually be HAPPIER more often, if you don't push your true nature.
And with this entry, I've decided to launch an entire blog on ANGER. Please click here to see the first entry.
See Stephanie's site Work Stress Solutions for more information like this.
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